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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Distilling a Scent Bouquet
- with Frank Bloem26Sep 2021During this workshop, you will be introduced to scent extraction and the distillation process. Distillation is the process of extracting essential oils from plant based materials. Using your own or...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Foraging for Mental Health
with Lynn Shore
Did you know that many plants that grow in the city can help to boost your mood and support mental health? In this workshop Lynn Shore will take you on a mindful guided session around Dijkspark and...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Foraging for Mental Health
- with Lynn Shore6Oct 2021Are you looking to boost your mood by connecting with your environment? Lynn Shore will take you on a mindful guided session to explore ways to engage with everyday nature in order to support your...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Foraging for Mental Health
- with Lynn Shore8Sep 2021Are you looking to boost your mood by connecting with your environment? Lynn Shore will take you on a mindful guided session to explore ways to engage with everyday nature in order to support your...
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Jan de Wilgenman
Jan van Schaik is speeltuin ontwerper, uitvaartmanden vlechter, fluiten snijder en landschap kunstenaar. Onder anderen bekend van de installaties in het Frankendael Park in Amsterdam en...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Elise Chalcraft
Elderflower Champagne 2.0
Popping champagne straight from the garden!
The first fermentation step for making Elderflower champagne started last week with a trial test of 20L! Here you can find the process, recipe, and some great action shots of the flowery business!
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Elise Chalcraft
Tasting before wasting
Optimizing our African Catfish feed
My project for the past 8 weeks has been to look at how we could use waste streams from both the aquaponics greenhouse and the kitchen to feed our catfish to make the system as circular as possible.
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Foraging for Mental Health
- with Lynn Shore7Jul 2021Did you know that many plants that grow in the city can help to boost your mood and support mental health? In this workshop Lynn Shore will take you on a mindful guided session around Dijkspark and...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Elise Chalcraft
7 kilos of Happiness
The ins and outs of weighing our fish
Every 6 months, we weigh our 128 African catfish. This is done to get a snapshot into the growth rate of the catfish and check on their general wellbeing. The Aquaponics Greenhouse currently has five...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Jessica Cohen
An Occult Dunghill in the Dijkspark
What is that overgrown mound of flora and fauna in front of the Sluisdeurenloods? Visitors of Mediamatic will have noticed a peculiar sight in front of the barn. Is it a garden, a sculpture or an...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Jessica Cohen
Back to Nature
behind the artistic practice of Ruchama Noorda
Whilst European societies charged towards modernity at the turn of the 20th century, a new social reform movement went back to nature. How does the work of Ruchama Noorda relate to this movement?
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Knowledge Page
Ordering Seeds
Casting Doubt
In the document at the bottom of the page you will find an overview of the seeds that need to be ordered for the punch cards and how much is needed per species. In this list you will also find an...
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The real story behind natural perfumery
Natural vs synthetic. Is it really eco?
"Natural is always better" a sentence we often hear, but is it really? Well, in perfumery, it is not as simple, and there is a twist to what is commonly known and followed. Chemistry came to add...
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Annatto
Bixa orellana
Find this plant on Wikipedia . Also known as Uruku, Rukum Roucou, Achiote and more.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Firing
- with Ruchama Noorda21Jun 2021We usher in summer with a firing ritual in the tumulus! Each season this growing garden installation takes on different forms, and this summer it is centered around fire. Ruchama is working on a...
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Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Promised Land
June '15 - July '19
How, and where to move thousands of kilos of straw and clay? When Mediamatic moved from the Van Gendthallen to the Dijksgracht in 2015, we had to disassemble our freshly built straw office. It was...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
L'Absinthe de la Rue de Dindon VIII – Mediamatic…
by Dirk Vis and Edgar Walthert
Ingredients: spirits, anise, fennel, liquorice, nettle, lemon, sage*, hyssop, melissa, coriander, lavender*, mint*, tree wormwood*, mugworth* and wormwood *harvested from Tumulus
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Observational Plant Drawing
- with Annemarie Verschoor1Aug 2021Seeing is knowing is seeing is knowing... A biology, foraging and drawing workshop in one! Together with biologist and artist Annemarie Verschoor, you will be guided through the different dimensions...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Observational Plant Drawing
- with Annemarie Verschoor3Jul 2021Seeing is knowing is seeing is knowing... A biology, foraging and drawing workshop in one! Together with biologist and artist Annemarie Verschoor, you will be guided through the different dimensions...
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Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ruchama Noorda
Spring
Mar - June '21
This spring the woad (Isatis Tinctoria) growing on the Tumulus flowers bright radiant yellow.The Hermitess pandemic shelter is freshly painted with wood tar that was obtained from trees through...
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Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ruchama Noorda
Hibernating Winter Garden
Dec '20 - Mar '21
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Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ruchama Noorda
Blue Monday
Sept - Dec '20
The Tumulus lot is alive with weeds and herbs seeded by the wind or deliberately planted. The woad (lsatis tinctoria) which was planted in 2019 has been partially harvested and used to make woad dye...
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Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ruchama Noorda
Healing Property
Mar - Aug '20
In late July and early August 2020, an ornamental hermitage was constructed at the centre of the Tumulus, slightly sunk into the earth. It is built from compacted earth-bags and discarded home...
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Tumulus Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ruchama Noorda
Dormant Lot
Nov '19 - Mar '20